The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-08
SUGAR STRIKERS.
The Trouble on the Louisiana
Sugar Plantations.
EMPLOYERS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY.

OF 70 per cent day on the present rates of
ST. day and rations. The strike is promo
ted and engineered by the knights of Labor
New ORLEANS October 3l.-In view of the
fact that a general strike of laborers of the
sugar plantations, to begin November l, has
been ordered by the executive board of district
assembly 1,A0, i'll the parishes of st. Mary,
Iberia, ST. Martin, Terrebonne and Lafourch,
at large meeting of planters the following
was adopted:
Resolved, That if any laborers are discharged
from the plantations upon which they now at
work or if any such discharge themselves by refs-
ing to work. we pledge ourselves TO give them no
employment; that all people discharged for refusing
to work be requested to leave the plantation within
lwenty four hours and their refusal to obey that
the powers OF law be invoked to assist the owners of
erty. ''''ii --e'''S u piop'
Resolved That it is the sense of this meeting that
an emergency has risen which requires that the
government be called upon to furnish military aid
IN enforcing the law and to prevent bloodshed and
violence and that the sheriff of the parish be re-
some recognized military organization
AS a result of the above resolution a COM
panyof infantry consisting of thirty men,
under command of Captain w. H. Beanham,
with one light gatling gun, has been ordered
to proceed to ThibodeauX and report to the
judge of that district.
PATERsoNvILLE, La, November IA gem
eral strike among the bands on the sugar plant
ations was inaugurated this morning on the
lower Teche, i'll the district between Bartels
station and Morgan City. All the places above
Grandwood are still working and all places be-
low and including Grandwood are either idle
or working with few white hands. The
planters are q unit in resisting the demands of
the strikersand they have no doubt about the
result
NFw ORLEANS, La. November 2.-Dis-
patch to merchants here from l.. LacaSagne,
of Tigervile, La, says:
1.-The strikers shot four of my laborers this morning
from an ambush, have telegraphed the governor
for troops. Please see that they get off at once"
M1SSrS Hack the of a mo
at once informed Generals Glynn and Meyer
and Colonel Richardson, of the Washington
Artillery, the tenor of the dispatch and officers
are awaiting the action of the governor
through the adjutant general, when the nee
essary orders will be issued.
The sugar plantation of Mr.. Lacasagne
Greenwood is in the parish of Terre Bonnie,
on Bayou Black, eight miles from Tigerville,
and between that point and Homer. Prior
to Friday last there were employed upon the
Greenwood plantation about sixty laborers,
twenty-five white, and the remainder colored.
On Friday the latter all struck for higher
wages, but all the white hands remained and
continued at work as usual. Lacasagne at once
made arrangements for filling up the number
of laborers required upon his plantation by en-
gaging white men in this city, and yesterday
forty-five were sent there but whether the four
men ambuShed and shot this morning were
among the number, or of those remaining upon
the plantation, the telegram does not state.
NEW ORLEANS, November "A Times
Democrats Jeannerette special says:
Striking laborers on adjacent plantations have
been ordered to leave They will be elected by force
tomorrow if the orders have not been obeyed. The
strikers ontwo plantations resumed work today.
A ThibodeauX special says:
In this parish the sit lation is unchanged. No VIC
lence is reported. In response to the summons to
as a rule adopted the latter alternative, and are
either hocking into town. where many of them ar
rived today, or are packing up and making active
sworn out against some twenty men who refused
to adopt either alternative. Twelve of these were
arrested, including two white men, but all were
bailed. 1t was reported this morning that serious
trouble had occurred in Terre Bonnie parish, and
that Captain Aveiys company from New iberia had
been ordered to Houma in consequence. Laborers
brought from New Orleans to fill the places of the
strikers on Greenwood plantations were fred upon
while at work and two Of them wounded"
Advices from Raceland, La, report that
strikers in that section are turbulent and
threatening, and the citizens have asked for
protection. Judge Beattie has ordered the
point.
A special to the Picayune from Morgan
City, La, says:
Everything is quiet The planters still refuse to
yield to the demands of the strikers There is dis
also in Pattersonville. Developments are looked
for Thursday but there have been Us yet no reports
of trouble. The weather is very pleasant.
A special to the Picayune from Franklin,
La, says:
Mary's parish from Centreville to Berwick, dis
lance twenty miles. All the strikers have been
ordered to leave the plantations or resume work,
Information from the upper portion of the pasish is
to the effect that all plantation hands are at work in
full force. No violence has been reported from
any section of the parish.
NEW ORLEANS, Ln., November 3.-Up to
this hour, 8 P. m, nothing new has been re-
ceiyed today from the parishes where the strike
of plantation hands is in progress regarding
the situation. II. Zuberbier, of Zuberbier &
Rehan, owners of several large sugar estates,
returned home this morning after a weeks
absence spent in inspecting the plantations.
He very much laments the occur
renee of the strike as the frost
season is at hand and consequent danger to
this, as fine, if not the finest, sugar crop ever
grown in Louisiana. Along the river several
planters have conceded the rate of wages de-
manded S1.25 per day, where no contracts ex-
listed. Zuberbier says he recognizes danger in
yielding to their demand for an increase in
cases where laborers have contracted at 500
per day for the season, as establishing prece-
dent of breaking contracts, through the medium
of strikes, which would render stability
of business estimates, so very
necessary to the success of plantation
work, impossible.
New ORLEANS. La, November IA
special from Jeanncrette, La, says labor af-
fairs are beginning to present brighter aspect.
Laborers ordered to leave the plantation of DR..
Good and Captain Willis, have all done SO.
Captain Cado was this morning instructed to
remain in Jeannerette with squad OF ten men
and to send the balance OF the
company to his headquarters. Tonight he
received another order to proceed
to PattersonVille at once with force of thirty
mon.
NEW ORLEANS, November 4.-Three of the
laborers recently sent to Greenwood planta-
ton near Tigersville where the striking negroes
are reported TO have fired on them from am
bush returned to the city this morning. They
say that the first report of the affair was great
ly exaggerated. The adjutant general has
issued an order disbanding the militia, which
has been assembled in Baton Rouge.
New ORLEANS, November 5.--Reliable in
formation was received here today that four
white men were shot by the strikers last night
while attending cane carriers near Berwicks.
The sheriff. on receipt of information, sum-
moned posse Of about forty men from the
vicinity and left for the scene Of the shooting,
increasing the posse along the route to about
eight substantial citizens. Captain Codes
company passed down to Berwick OH the
train at noon. Rumors are current that the
laborers at irish Bend will strike
Monday. Reports from the upper part Of the
parish and Bayou CypemOrt are that all is
quiet and that the labOrers are all at work.
A dispatch from New Iberia says:
This evening a report was current here that sew
eral men had been killed at Patersonyle I'd some
color Is given to the rnOr by the fact that Captain